Abag of rice at the warehouse store weighs 15 pounds maya needs to buy rice for her restaurant right in equation that can be used to find the pounds of rice, p, and any number of bags of rice, r.

An is a number that is written without a component. it is a number that is either or . an exponent is a or a number that another number is being to. the number that is being raised to a is called the . the or power tells you how many times to the base by . if an exponent is fractional then ask yourself the question: what when multiplied by itself a certain number of times will equal the number?